Him
On 06/30/2010 08:41 PM, Ashish Bhatia wrote:
Hi LUG members,
[...snip...]
I wonder which releases do LUG members recommend with following four features
1) User has good enough experience with system(most work is done from
command line) the only reason to start X server for me is to run
Firefox and pidgin
2) Plain interface similar to XFCE but does not crash
3) Is not memory hog (like KDE 4)
4) must be fast(user hates compiz and any such flying effects)
Just to be clear, you do know that all desktop effects are optional right ? In
GNOME go to System->Preferences->Desktop Effects and turn it off. I also
recommend disabling Nautilus and other desktop 'daemons'
(System->Preferences->Startup applications) which you might consider unnecessary.
If you /do/ want to change your window manager, I recommend using WindowMaker.
It is ultra-fast, stable and has /very/ small memory footprint while also being
very usable (infact if you learn how to customize it, it'll be /very/ hard to
move away from it).
I speak from experience, I held out against moving to X as primary interface
till about 2004. I used to work almost 95% of the time on terminal - heading to
X only for browsing sites which were unusable in firefox (or whatever it was
called then). I did mail, chat, media all on the cli (and good looking cli too !
with SVGATextMode). Then I moved to using WindowMaker which kept me satisfied
till as recently as early 2009 -- after which i've moved to GNOME, mainly
because I got tired of making all the 'new' essential stuff like hal/udev/dbus,
NetworkManager, PulseAudio etc work correctly on WindowMaker. Of course, i have
compiz and all other eye candy disabled.
hth,
cheers,
- steve
--
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